Violence articles
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Leaders to meet as thousands rally to end violence
An emergency meeting of Australian leaders will be convened to tackle the scourge of violence against women after tens of thousands of people marched throughout the nation. A crowd of thousands marched on Parliament House in Canberra on Sunday for the last of 17 weekend rallies following an estimated 15,000 people demonstrating in Melbourne and […]
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PM joins weekend of rallies against gendered violence
The prime minister will join thousands of demonstrators as they march for a third day throughout Australia to demand action to end violence against women. A dozen rallies will be held in major cities and regional towns on Sunday as part of a series of national events calling for a break in the cycle of […]
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Your academic privilege will not save you from state violence
We may have reached a moment, as with the anti-Vietnam war protests on US campuses in the late 1960s that became mass protests after disgraceful police/national state trooper violence on campus. When a professor gets roughed up by thuggish policing, you have reached a tipping point. The aggressive crackdown on dissent in the US against […]